In pre-modern Japan, wolves were worshipped as sacred; with the spread of rabies in the 18th century, they became feared and hunted; by 1905 wolves had disappeared from the country. This book examines how and why wolves became extinct in Japan, and the changing attitudes toward nature that are implied.
In pre-modern Japan, wolves were worshipped as sacred; with the spread of rabies in the 18th century, they became feared and hunted; by 1905 wolves had disappeared from the country. This book examines how and why wolves became extinct in Japan, and the changing attitudes toward nature that are implied.
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Brett Walker is the Michael P. Malone Memorial professor of history at Montana State University. He is the author of A Concise History of Japan (Cambridge UP, 2015), as well as two titles in the Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books series, Toxic Archipelago (2010), which won the George Perkins Marsh Prize for Best Book in Environmental History from ASEH, and The Lost Wolves of Japan (2005). He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2013.
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Foreword: A Strange Violent Intimacy / William Cronon Preface A Note to the Reader Introduction Science and the Creation of the Japanese Wolf Culture and the Creation of Japan's Sacred Wolves The Conflicts between Wolf Hunters and Rabid Man-Killers in Early Modern Japan Meiji Modernization, Scientific Agriculture, and Destroying the Hokkaido Wolf Wolf Bounties and the Ecologies of Progress Wolf Extinction Theories and the Birth of Japan's Discipline of Ecology Appendix: Wolves and Bears Killed and Bounties Paid by Administrative Region, 1877-1881 Notes Works Cited Index
Foreword: A Strange Violent Intimacy / William Cronon Preface A Note to the Reader Introduction Science and the Creation of the Japanese Wolf Culture and the Creation of Japan's Sacred Wolves The Conflicts between Wolf Hunters and Rabid Man-Killers in Early Modern Japan Meiji Modernization, Scientific Agriculture, and Destroying the Hokkaido Wolf Wolf Bounties and the Ecologies of Progress Wolf Extinction Theories and the Birth of Japan's Discipline of Ecology Appendix: Wolves and Bears Killed and Bounties Paid by Administrative Region, 1877-1881 Notes Works Cited Index
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